In his 10th at Concordia, Martin Gonzalez has been at his programs' post longer than any other coach on the athletics staff.

Gonzalez coaches the cross country and the track and field programs on the men's and women's side.

In his nine previous years at Concordia, Gonzalez has garnered Coach of the Year recognition a total of 15 times, most recently earning honors as the 2008 GSAC Track and Field Coach of the Year.

Overall, Gonzalez has coached four individual champions and 88 individual All-Americans, including five in the 2009 indoor track and field season. 

Gonzalez' men's and women's cross country programs both won GSAC titles in 2005 and 2006, and the men's team captured a GSAC title in 2007 en route to an 11th-place finish at the national meet.

Concordia won its first-ever national title in 2000, Gonzalez' first year, with a first-place finish in women's cross country, It marked the first time that a West-Coast NAIA school had won a national crown in the first 20 years of the national championship history.

In 2005 and 2006, Gonzalez led the cross country programs to a Combined Men's and Women's National Title, as the men's teams finished in second place both years and the women's finished fifth and third place, respectively.

In track and field, Gonzalez' teams have twice finished as high as eighth place on the national stage, as his men's team finished eighth in the 2007 NAIA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship. The women also earned a No. 8 finish in the 2005 NAIA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship.

Gonzalez, 39, a graduate of Anaheim's Magnolia High School, earned his bachelor's from Adams State (Colo.) in 1996, where he served as an assistant coach as both an undergraduate and a graduate student. Gonzalez also holds a master's in health, which he earned at Adams State in 1998.

Gonzalez and his wife, Norma, live in Garden Grove and have two children, Alexis (13), and Martin Jesus (6).